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| Re: Halo - a look back over seven years | |
| Posted By: BlueNinja <kennethdemuyt@msn.com> | Date: 11/16/08 3:15 a.m. |
In Response To: Halo - a look back over seven years (Louis Wu) : http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=24503 : Give us what you got!
So, I bought Halo 2, played the heck out of it, and then bought the first Halo. Hours more of awesomeness ensued. I got myself immersed into the lore, and had a good time while doing it. Around that time (may 2005, I reckon) I discovered HBO. I liked the somewhat sober front-page design, it was a welcome change from some of the other sites I had been frequenting. Every day I would check the front page to see what news Wu had put up for us. It was a great time. Time passed, and more games came along. Halo and its successor disappeared to the bottom of my shelf, stacked underneath the other (although not many) Xbox games I had. I bought an Xbox 360 on December 3, 2005, but due to the lack of a hard drive (I had been lucky just getting a Core, I didn't want to push my luck any further) the two Halo's got buried underneath titles such as Oblivion and Gears of War. Then came that fateful day in May 2006 (I was going through a pretty rough year back then) when Halo 3 was announced. A lot of my friends were stoked by the news, but not in the way I was... I was extatic. It would be a long wait, however, fall 2007 seemed like a very long time away for a 14-year old boy. Time went on, and by the time Halo 3 came around, games had taken a back seat to the feelings for a certain girl I was having at the time. When I started to realize she didn't feel the same way, I jumped back into my games with the ferocity of a lion. I brought my Halo 3 Legendary Edition, which had been preordered since June 2007, home, and started playing, much to the relief of my friends, who I had been driving crazy through my incessant, though mostly low-key, hype for the game. Halo 3 did something no other Halo game had been able to do: it made me forget. Whenever I felt down (mostly because of the aforementioned troubles on the love-front), loading up the game and blasting a few Grunts made me feel significantly better. Even when Mass Effect came around, I still wound up going back to Halo 3 after I had beaten ME several times over. Same happened with Call of Duty 4 when I eventually purchased it in the Easter Holidays of 2008. Halo 3 has now taken the back-seat, though, (although I still took time to do the Annual Run) the release of Far Cry 2 (which still feels like €70 not-so-well-spent), Fallout 3 (best-game-ever) and Gears 2 (*drools*) saw to that. I'm in another semi-difficult patch on the frosted lake of love at the moment, and whenever I feel down, just strolling around across the Wastes in Fallout makes me realize things could be a lot worse. So thanks, not just to Halo, but to videogames in general, without which my life would've looked a hell of a lot different. Halo 3, see you once Recon comes around. =)
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